“For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.”
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Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld is a renowned American professor born on December 1, 1959. He holds a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he focuses on research in the fields of manufacturing, design, and engineering. Gershenfeld is known for his contributions to digital manufacturing and microfabrication. more